Data protection.

1. Introduction

These data protection conditions apply to the services offered by Empirisch Tech, in particular to those provided with the website www.simvera.net and all sub-pages accessible under this domain. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Data protection is a matter of trust. When processing your personal data, we carefully observe the legal provisions. We would like you to know which personal data we collect, process, store and use (hereinafter: “processed”) for which purpose and, if necessary, pass them on. We therefore also inform you in detail about the data protection of our website and our online services, so that you feel safe when visiting and using our service.

Empirisch Tech will process your data exclusively according to the following regulations. If you agree to the transfer of your data, different provisions may apply to the use of your data by the recipient than those contained in these data protection provisions.

2. Responsible party

The controller responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, DSG) is Empirisch Tech GmbH (limited liability), Managing Director: Dr. techn. Rao Muhammad Wasif Masood, Rennweg 88, 1030 Vienna, Austria.

Email: contact@simvera.net
Phone: +43-1-2396082

3. Collection, processing and use of personal data

3.1. Under Art. 4(1) GDPR, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, for example name, address and telephone number, including all data you disclose when using the services offered by Empirisch Tech. As an Austrian company we are subject to the GDPR and, where it allows national rules, to the Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, DSG). Anonymised information is not personal data. For the provision and individualization of our services to your needs, it is necessary that we process certain personal data for the following purposes.

3.2. This website does not offer user accounts or registration. If you write to us through the contact form, we process the data you submit — name, email address, subject and message — so that we can reply and administer the enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (steps at your request prior to a contract) and, where the enquiry is not contractual, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in answering you). We keep that correspondence only as long as needed to handle the request and any follow-up, unless a longer statutory retention period applies. We do not use contact-form submissions for marketing and we do not sell or share them with third parties for their own purposes.

The contact form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, a CAPTCHA alternative provided by Cloudflare, Inc. When you submit the form, a token is sent to Cloudflare so that we can tell a person from an automated request. Cloudflare processes that request as a processor. Cloudflare’s privacy information is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

Your data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary to handle your enquiry or to operate this website, if a legal obligation requires it, or if you have given your prior consent. Service providers used by us (for example hosting, email delivery, or security checks) receive only the data they need for that task and may use it solely to fulfil it.

If you use our website for information purposes only, i.e. do not submit the contact form or otherwise provide us with information, we do not collect any personal data, with the exception of the data transmitted by your browser to enable you to visit the website, and — if you accept analytics cookies — the measurement data described in sections 4 and 5.

4. Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. They cannot run programs or transmit viruses. We divide the cookies and similar storage used on this website into two groups.

Strictly necessary. These are needed for the website to function and are set without your consent, on the basis of our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. They are a local storage entry named simvera:consent, which remembers the cookie choice you made so that we do not ask you again on every page, and — only if you switch theme yourself — a local storage entry named theme. Neither is used to track you and neither is shared with anyone.

Analytics. These measure how the website is used. They are set only after you have actively agreed, on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and section 165(3) of the Austrian Telecommunications Act. They are _ga and _ga_*, set by Google Analytics, and they expire after two years. Details are in section 5 below.

When you first visit this site, a banner asks whether you accept analytics cookies. Until you choose, no analytics cookie is written and no measurement data is sent. If you decline, nothing is written and the website works exactly as it otherwise would. We do not treat continued use of the website as consent.

Changing your mind. You can withdraw or give consent at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Withdrawal takes effect immediately and does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before it. You can also delete cookies at any time in your browser settings, and configure your browser to refuse them.

5. Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). We use it to understand which pages are read and which are not, so that we can decide what to keep and what to improve.

Google Analytics is loaded in a consent-gated mode. Before you make a choice, Google Consent Mode is set to deny analytics and advertising storage, which means no analytics cookie is written and no identifier is stored on your device. Measurement begins only once you accept analytics cookies in the banner. The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, which you may withdraw at any time through the Cookie settings link in the footer.

Where measurement does take place, we have enabled IP anonymisation, so your IP address is shortened by Google before any further processing. Google processes the data on our behalf as a processor under Art. 28 GDPR. Transfers to the United States are covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, in which Google LLC participates, and by the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. Information Google collects may be stored on servers in the United States.

Independently of our banner, you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by installing the browser add-on from Google. Google’s own privacy information is at policies.google.com/privacy.

We do not use Google Analytics for advertising, we do not enable advertising features or remarketing, and we do not combine analytics data with any other data about you.

6. Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. Your browser makes a direct connection with Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data can be found in the Google Fonts FAQ and in Google’s privacy policy.

7. Information on the newsletter and consents

This website does not operate a newsletter and does not send promotional emails from a subscription list. If that changes, we will update this section and ask for consent before sending anything. Emails we send in reply to a message you submitted through the contact form are not a newsletter.

8. Rights of the persons concerned

You have the right to:

• request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you may request information about the purpose of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if these have not been collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details;
• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to demand without delay the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by us;
• to request the deletion of your personal data stored with us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete the data and if you no longer require the data for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims, or if you have lodged an objection against the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, current and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another person responsible;
• in accordance with Art. 7(3) GDPR, to revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we are no longer allowed to continue processing data based on this consent in the future;
• to complain to a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at our company headquarters. In Austria that is the Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde.

9. Deletion of data

Your personal data will be deleted if there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary and if you have asserted a claim for deletion, if the data is no longer required to fulfill the purpose for which it was stored or if its storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.

10. Right of objection

If your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1) sentence 1(f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this which arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which we will implement without specifying a particular situation.

If you would like to make use of your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to contact@simvera.net.